The car bomb, for example, and what automobiles seemed most likely to be used as explosives, changed the way the people of Beirut related to their city, physically and psychologically reorganizing their home.

The experience of students at the American University of Beirut (AUB) was unique in terms of the dangers, anxieties and fears that they had to cope with on a daily basis, and the adjustment process that they had to engage in to fashion a normal academic and social life.

On Monday, and discussing the reasons behind increasing power blackouts in different Lebanese regions, Minister Jibran Bassil suggested that one of the solutions to power rationing would be providing Beirut city with the same power supply provided to other Lebanese regions.

The Islamist organization Hizbullah announced on Wednesday that it was to boycott municipal elections in Beirut like its ally MP Michel Aoun, according to a report in the Beirut daily AN NAHAR on Thursday.

Finally, the government consolidated its control over Greater Beirut (extending from the Kalb to the Damur rivers) and sent army brigades in the Spring and Summer of 1991 to claim other areas in the South, Mount Lebanon, Kisirwan, and the North.

In July 1947, the Maronite Archbishop of Beirut, Ignatiyus Mubarak, presented a memorandum to the UN Special Committee on Palestine in which he declared that "to consider Palestine and Lebanon as parts of the Arab world would amount to a denial of history.

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